Non-disruptive system for verifying default passwords have been changed without causing security lockouts

A computer system, comprising:

• a processor;
• a memory device coupled to the processor;
• and
• a computer readable storage device coupled to the processor, wherein the storage device contains program code executable by the processor via the memory device to implement a method comprising:
• enabling for testing, by a processor of a computing system, user identifiers associated with a plurality of devices, prior to an initial security test;
• performing, by the processor, a login attempt to each device using a default password for the user identifier of each device as part of the initial security test to test each device to ensure that the default password has been changed by a user associated with the user identifier;
• and
• retrying, by the processor, a new login attempt only for each user identifier in an enabled state during one or more subsequent security tests initiated after a predetermined alert interval, thereby skipping login attempts for user identifiers in a non-enabled state so that a security lockout is avoided for users associated with the user identifiers in the non-enabled state.

A computer program product, comprising a computer readable hardware storage device storing a computer readable program code, the computer readable program code comprising an algorithm that when executed by a computer processor of a computing system implements a method comprising:

• enabling for testing, by a processor of a computing system, user identifiers associated with a plurality of devices, prior to an initial security test;
• performing, by the processor, a login attempt to each device using a default password for the user identifier of each device as part of the initial security test to test each device to ensure that the default password has been changed by a user associated with the user identifier;
• and
• retrying, by the processor, a new login attempt only for each user identifier in an enabled state during one or more subsequent security tests initiated after a predetermined alert interval, thereby skipping login attempts for user identifiers in a non-enabled state so that a security lockout is avoided for users associated with the user identifiers in the non-enabled state.